A Russian man has been arrested after stealing 82 concrete slabs which made up a road.

The man, who is in his 40s, has admitted that he used an industrial manipulator to dismantle the slabs from the road that links the village of Parcheg in the Komi Republic with the Vychegda River in Russia, The Moscow Times reports.

The stolen slabs, worth a collective 200,000 rubles (Â£3,945), were loaded onto three trucks which were later stopped by police, the regional interior department said in a statement.

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The suspect, who has a previous criminal record, has admitted his guilt and now faces up to two years in prison.